New Public Art Commissioning Guidance (2025)
New ixia board (2025)
NPPF Reforms - ixia response (2024)
Public Art Support Pilot (2023-25)
Public Art & Placemaking keynote for CLOA (2023)
Diversity & Inclusion in the Public Art Sector Event Review (2023)
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Survey Archive (2011-2018)
Survey and Forums Report (2022)
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New ixia board (2025)
NPPF Reforms - ixia response (2024)
Public Art Support Pilot (2023-25)
Public Art & Placemaking keynote for CLOA (2023)
Diversity & Inclusion in the Public Art Sector Event Review (2023)
Board Members
Survey Archive (2011-2018)
Survey and Forums Report (2022)
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ixia New Public Art Commissioning Guidance
ixia is pleased to share a suite of four free guidance documents, created to support best practice in temporary and permanent public art commissioning and production.
01 Setting Up for Public Art Commissions
02 Public Art Commission Governance
03 Public Art Commissioning Roadmap
04 Public Art Examples
These recommendations were produced following the evaluation of ixia’s Public Art Support Pilot programme in 2023-24 with Barnsley, Darlington and St Helens Councils, developed with and funded by Arts Council England. Together the guidance and recent examples of artist practice in the public realm offer insights and tips into the processes and approaches to successful public art commissioning.
The recommendations include project scoping, artist recruitment, community engagement, funding and scheduling. A variety of approaches are shared, many with diversity, inclusion and social engagement at the heart.
Peter Heslip, Director, Visual Arts and Brighton, Arts Council England:
“England has a rich tradition of public art which make our towns and cities better places to live and work. Public art has the power to uplift and deepen our experience of places and help tell important stories. But with the fast pace of change in the local authority landscape it is more important than ever that our governmental partners can access the best expertise and advice for these projects to come off successfully. Arts Council England was so pleased to support and work with ixia on this project. We hope these new resources that set out robust approaches will support those embarking on new projects.”
To download the documents, please visit this page
To be kept informed of ixia’s development please drop us a line and we will add you to the mailing list.
ixia New Public Art Commissioning Guidance
ixia is pleased to share a suite of four free guidance documents, created to support best practice in temporary and permanent public art commissioning and production.
01 Setting Up for Public Art Commissions
02 Public Art Commission Governance
03 Public Art Commissioning Roadmap
04 Public Art Examples
These recommendations were produced following the evaluation of ixia’s Public Art Support Pilot programme in 2023-24 with Barnsley, Darlington and St Helens Councils, developed with and funded by Arts Council England. Together the guidance and recent examples of artist practice in the public realm offer insights and tips into the processes and approaches to successful public art commissioning.
The recommendations include project scoping, artist recruitment, community engagement, funding and scheduling. A variety of approaches are shared, many with diversity, inclusion and social engagement at the heart.
Peter Heslip, Director, Visual Arts and Brighton, Arts Council England:
“England has a rich tradition of public art which make our towns and cities better places to live and work. Public art has the power to uplift and deepen our experience of places and help tell important stories. But with the fast pace of change in the local authority landscape it is more important than ever that our governmental partners can access the best expertise and advice for these projects to come off successfully. Arts Council England was so pleased to support and work with ixia on this project. We hope these new resources that set out robust approaches will support those embarking on new projects.”
To download the documents, please visit this page
To be kept informed of ixia’s development please drop us a line and we will add you to the mailing list.
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